42 chapter one accompanying rights, each of which reflect an analysis of the various relations within that state. Indeed, citizenship reveals how self-conceptions of nationhood and statehood are culturally and historically inscribed, and reflects the ways in which they are intertwined with institutional and structural realities and political changes. And it is here where my examination of the Israeli incorporation regime commences. Similar to other nation-states, the nature of the State of Israel translates into the character of its citizenship. As we will see, the ideological, conceptual and symbolic emphasis on its Jewish and Zionist character shapes the kind of citizenship it provides to its Palestinian-Arab community, along with how this citizenship is formulated, structured, and arranged. Importantly, this produces intense juridico-political, socio-cultural and economic mechanisms of exclusion within the Israeli citizenship regime. These multifaceted racialized frameworks of exclusion embedded within what I will examine as the Zionist incorporation regime work in conjunction, intersect, and fuel one another. As such, their treatment in isolation from one another is ineffective as the various relations of exclusion within Arab citizenship in Israel is not solely the result of a single feature of state-citizen relations, but the product of all of these elements. The examination of Israel’s formal and informal practices in the following chapter exposes the dynamics and structure of the Zionist incorporation regime. And with this, the sophisticated policies of exclusion and their respective systems of control that underpin Arab citizenship within this incorporation regime will begin to emerge.